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Full Idea
Plato's 'Parmenides' is perhaps the best collection of antinomies ever made.
Clarification
'Antinomies' are conflicts in our thinking
Gist of Idea
Plato's 'Parmenides' is perhaps the best collection of antinomies ever made
Source
comment on Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE]) by Bertrand Russell - The Principles of Mathematics §337
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'Principles of Mathematics' [Routledge 1992], p.355
13986 | Plato found antinomies in ideas, Kant in space and time, and Bradley in relations [Plato, by Ryle] |
14150 | Plato's 'Parmenides' is perhaps the best collection of antinomies ever made [Russell on Plato] |
21454 | The battle of the antinomies is usually won by the attacker, and lost by any defender [Kant] |
15628 | The idea that contradiction is essential to rational understanding is a key modern idea [Hegel] |
15629 | Tenderness for the world solves the antinomies; contradiction is in our reason, not in the essence of the world [Hegel] |
15630 | Antinomies are not just in four objects, but in all objects, all representations, all objects and all ideas [Hegel] |
17626 | The antinomy of endless advance and of completion is resolved in well-ordered transfinite numbers [Zermelo] |
21691 | Antinomies contradict accepted ways of reasoning, and demand revisions [Quine] |
9125 | Denying problems, or being romantically defeated by them, won't make them go away [Sorensen] |